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Percentage of victims that were male for different behaviours: The report also found that between 14 per cent and 35 per cent of perpetrators of domestic and family violence were female, depending on the kinds of violent and abusive behaviours surveyed.Percentage of perpetrators that were female for different behaviours: I phoned the domestic violence help line to try to resolve some issues concerning the abuse, and the woman who answered the phone said, ‘If you admit that you are the perpetrator and your wife says she has been victimised, then we can help you’.

In violent couples the most common pattern was for only the woman to be violent (n=48/82 or 59% of violent couples), next most common was violence by both partners (n=28, 34%), and least common was male-only violence (n=6, 7%). Miller, P, et al (2016), Alcohol/Drug-Involved Family Violence in Australia (ADIVA) Final Report, Deakin University. However, use of our material by any third party is not a sign of endorsement or affiliation between that party and One in Three.

Halford et al conducted Australian research in 2011 on intimate partner violence (IPV) in couples seeking relationship education for the transition to parenthood and found that in 19% of couples both partners perpetrated IPV, in 12% only the woman had perpetrated IPV, and in 3% only the man had perpetrated IPV. Intimate partner violence in couples seeking relationship education for the transition to parenthood. In order to carry out our aim of working with governments to provide better assistance to those affected by family violence, the One in Three Campaign works actively with all sides of the political spectrum but is unaffiliated with any political party or position.

It is time to care for all those in need, whether male or female.

I had to work long shifts and often when I came home, I’d find my wife had left the children (the youngest was only a few months) and had gone down to the club, drinking and playing the poker machines.

When it came to severity, fathers were also more likely than mothers to report experiencing the highest level of fear, control and coersion (10 on a 10-point scale) that they felt arising from the focus parent’s behaviour since separation.

Experiences of control and coersion were statistically significantly higher for fathers than mothers.This conscious neglect is in itself a form of social violence – the Australian Government’s human rights obligations require it to cater equitably for the needs of all, regardless of gender. Retrieved Novenber 2, 2017 from https://gov.au/reports/injury/trends-in-hospitalised-injury-australia-1999-00/contents/table-of-contents Cooke, T. One in three is enough to reject the politics of ideology. When reading the following quantitative statistics it should be remembered that family violence is extremely complex and doesn't just boil down to ‘who does what to whom and how badly’.There was no statistically significant difference between fathers and mothers in the frequency of reporting having often felt fearful after experiencing physical violence or emotional abuse since separation, and fathers were statistically significantly more likely than mothers to report having often felt controlled or coerced after experiencing physical violence or emotional abuse since separation.These authoritative sources agree that up to One in Three victims of sexual assault* and at least One in Three victims of family violence is male (perhaps as many as one in two). Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 10(2), 152-168.